Instead of appointing a moderator, we could grow one with recursive Page
Ranking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_ranking) (in math we knew
about this type of thing a while ago because of "citation analysis", see
the link).
Someone writes an open script and members of the list mail it with the
answers to these three questions:
1. do you volunteer to moderate?
2. Who should moderate? (give email addresses)
3. Who should judge who should moderate? (give email addresses).
Then you iterate over scoring people by "wisdom" and who gets the most
"wise" votes, until the scores converge.
The biggest hurdle would probably be getting volunteers, though.
Peter
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Prentice Bisbal <prentice at ias.edu> wrote:
> On 01/28/2012 05:17 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 01:29:52PM -0500, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
> >
> >> What it says is that we've given up on discussing technology with you,
> >> because your arguments are completely nonsensical. Since you clearly
> >> don't understand technology, we're hoping you can at least understand
> >> the simple concepts of basic etiquette.
> > Who's the list moderator, by the way?
> >
>> I don't think there is one, hence all the noise. The mailing list and
> beowulf.org is maintained by Penguin Computing/Scyld Software. Maybe
> they'd be interested in appoint a moderator or 3.
>> ---
> Prentice
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